Vanity Fair Girls

How did a hip-hop punk who made his name modeling Calvin Klein underwear end up in Paris playing the Cary Grant role in Jonathan Demme’s upcoming remake of Charade? Mark Wahlberg, formerly rapper Marky Mark, turned to acting with all the determination, grit, and bad-boy charm that helped him survive Boston’s mean streets—and a stint in prison for taking out a man’s eye. On the eve of Wahlberg’s $10 million leading-man debut in Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, Leslie Bennetts and the 30-year-old سٹار, ستارہ try to reconcile the darkness of his past with the brilliance of his future.

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Leslie Bennetts joins Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton in spotlighting the Broadway-bound سٹار, ستارہ Benjamin Walker.

By Leslie Bennetts•Photograph سے طرف کی Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton•Styled سے طرف کی Jessica Diehl
October 2010

Pontificate all آپ want about populism in American politics, but 30 سیکنڈ after Benjamin Walker seizes the stage in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, everyone knows that the point of the rollicking emo-rock musical is its six-foot-three-inch hunka-burnin’-manlove star. At the Public Theater production last spring, one critic was so overcome سے طرف کی Walker’s hilariously over-the-top sex appeal...

Jim Windolf and Josh Olins spotlight Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, a scaly addition to Pirates of the Caribbean.

By Jim Windolf•Photographs سے طرف کی Josh Olins
April 2011

Those overstuffed Pirates of the Caribbean movies—so fun! so profitable! so confusing!—have had just about everything one could hope for in a pirate picture. They’ve دیا us damsels in distress, rum, flying cannonballs, rotten teeth, plenty of swashbuckling, and oh, yes, Davy Jones’s locker. Through a rather strange omission, however, they have been bereft of on-screen mermaids, a sorry state of affairs to be remedied with the...

If آپ go to leonardodicaprio.com, آپ will find that it is تقسیم, الگ کریں down the middle. The left half is labeled "Leonardo," and will bring آپ up-to-date on his filmmaking career (doing rather nicely, with a حالیہ Oscar nomination for his performance in Blood Diamond and, to some tastes, an even stronger performance in best-picture winner The Departed). The right half is labeled "Eco-Site"; it offers guides to various environmental concerns, tips on differences anyone can make, and لنکس to dozens of green organizations and information. Not many stars share their پرستار face time with gorillas and...

Krista Smith and Sam Jones spotlight Elle Fanning, the 12-year-old سٹار, ستارہ of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere.

By Krista Smith•Photograph سے طرف کی Sam Jones
December 2010

Elle Fanning, the 12-year-old sister of that other seasoned actress Dakota Fanning (who is 16), takes a giant step آگے this ماہ in Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The movie is set in the chateau Marmont, on Sunset Boulevard, where everyone from Howard Hughes to Hunter S. Thompson has stayed. The hotel is now a mecca for young actors and hipsters. Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco, a...

Gossip Girl, CW’s prime-time drama of love, jealousy, and social one-upmanship among New York City’s private-school teens, is a style-setting hit. As Serena وین der Woodsen, Blake Lively has some killer outfits—but the Paris couture shows opened up a whole new armoire کے, ہینگر for the 20-year-old star.

by Nancy Jo Sales
June 2008

On Gossip Girl, Blake Lively plays Serena وین der Woodsen, a rich girl-next-door who navigates the treacherous terrain of Manhattan private-school life while wearing a lot of amazing-looking clothes. (Just witness the killer سونا leather جیکٹ she was rocking when frenemy...

Laura Jacobs and Michael Roberts spotlight the male stars of Fox’s Glee, in a designer-clad homage to Gene Kelly.

By Laura Jacobs•Photograph سے طرف کی Michael Roberts
May 2010

Those who remember the glee club of yore know that it was an all-male singing ensemble. As defined سے طرف کی the Harvard Dictionary of Music, the “glee” belongs to a genre that dates to the 18th century and has three یا مزید parts for men’s voices, unaccompanied. In its American heyday on college campuses, the glee club began to take seriously its Anglo-Saxon root, gleo, which means “entertainment, fun.” It wasn’t just...